The J. M. Smucker Company Plans to Build an Additional Smucker's® Uncrustables® Sandwiches Manufacturing Facility in Longmont, Colorado
January 31, 2017 at 07:15 am EST
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The J. M. Smucker Company announced that it plans to build an additional Smucker's® Uncrustables® sandwiches manufacturing facility to be located in Longmont, Colorado, near Denver. Construction of the facility will start in spring 2017 with production expected to begin in calendar year 2019. The new facility will help meet growing demand for company's Uncrustables sandwiches, which are pre-made frozen peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that consumers simply thaw and serve. The new Longmont facility will complement the company's company's Uncrustables sandwiches manufacturing facility in Scottsville, Kentucky, which will continue to produce up to two million sandwiches per day. With a total potential investment of $340 million, the Longmont facility will be constructed in two phases over multiple years. Phase one includes up to an initial $200 million investment to construct and operate the new facility, with an opportunity to invest an additional $140 million for phase two expansion, dependent on product demand. The facility will have approximately 250 employees when phase one is complete and up to 500 employees in total with the completion of phase two. Construction of the company's Uncrustables sandwiches manufacturing facility in Longmont is contingent on the approval of tax and business incentives and the closing of the transaction to purchase the real property where the facility will be located.
The JM Smucker Company specializes in producing and selling food and animal nutrition products. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- sale of coffee and food products (52.7%): coffee (Folgers® brands, Dunkin' Donuts® and Café Bustelo® brands) peanut butter, jams and jellies, oils, condensed milk, ready-to-use frostings and glazes, flour and baking ingredients, cookies, frozen potatoes, juices and beverages, dessert toppings, syrups, pickles, condiments, etc. (Smucker's®, Jif®, and Uncrustables® brands, etc.);
- sale of animal food products (35.5%): Rachael Ray Nutrish, Meow Mix ®, Milk-Bone®, Kibbles'n Bits®, 9Lives®, Nature's Recipe® and Pup-Peroni® brands;
- other (11.8%).
93.1% of net sales are from the United States.